ChooChooCharlie

Oh, you lucky!!! Those are some great seats! Congratulations! I don't believe the pit tickets are any lower than the main floor, just a helluva lot closer. I'm going to the Chicago Theater tonight for Eddie Izzard, so I'll scope it out and report back if you like.

 

We're on the right side in row MM for Thursday. [masking serious ticket envy] I'm content just to be in the building [/masking serious ticket envy]

 

I was at that Ryan Adams show last fall, but on the floor. I'm not sure I've ever sat in the balcony there. I can tell you that it's an absolutely beautiful venue and the acoustics are great - it's one of my favorite places to see a show here. You'll have a great time no matter where you're sitting!

haha, nice to see you over here too Choo Choo Charlie (and you got pit row CCC??? creepy )

Tang -- thanks a lot for that offer, I would really appreciate a report. For me, maybe 1/3 of the fun of going to shows is looking forward to that show. If it makes your ticket envy feel any better, your Thursday seats are better than mine

Solace -- the CCC thing hadn't occurred to me. Maybe its concert karma (I was going to make a lame cc email joke here, but realized my MMJ euphoria was blurring my comedic judgment).

I hate to be the "brag about seats" guy (I hate that guy), but I'm so pumped I had to share this....

4 seats for Friday, PIT row CCC

Weird thing is I got them around half hour after they went on sale -- I had already bought 4 other seats, and was just speculating for better ones. Are these as amazing as they appear to be? I've never been to the Chicago Theater. Anyone know if they are lower than the other seats (thus "pit"), or anything else about this section? Thanks in advance. My 4th MMJ show could very well be my fav.

And I love Evil Urges, though not as much as Z or It Still Moves (...yet anyway).

what a groooovy stage

Well, well, well, if it isn't Renee Zellweger. Welcome!

Thanks for that, my face hurts.

Although I respect everyone's right to their opinion -- if you enjoy rock n' roll music, I really don't know how its possible not to like the Raconteurs. It reminds me of Chuck Klosterman's story of interviewing Jeff Tweedy when Tweedy told him his son was in a band that covered Jet.

Klosterman made some sarcastic remark that it would take a band of 2nd graders to want to cover Jet.

Tweedy looked at him "like I had just made fun of a quadriplegic" and asked, "Well, don't you like rock music?"

Klosterman goes on to say he then realized, "A.) Jet plays rock music B.) I like rock music, and C.) I actually like Jet, both tangibly and intangibly."

Although I can't say I'm a fan of Jet (or the Jets, and am barely a fan of "Benny & the Jets") -- I think I'd be hard pressed not to have fun throwing back a few beers at a Jet show. For me, the same concept applies (on a more artistic level) to the Raconteurs. Its well-written, well-executed, poppy, hard rock, blues-based music. Its impossible for me not to like anything that fits that description. On top of meeting that fundamental criteria, I think this is one of the best rock albums I've heard in a while.

As far as why do the Raconteurs when you have the White Stripes -- anyone who knows the Stripes and Raconteurs well knows that their creations (while admittedly similar at times) are mutually exclusive. The Rac give Jack a bassist, a great collaborator and singer, and a drummer with real chops (sorry Meg you know I love you).

"there's nothin' wrong with a good Nudie suit, you just gotta have the substance to back it up"

Looks like Jeff has the substance. Intriguing fashion foreshadowing -- thanks for the link.

there's a minute of my life I'll never get back.

My problem is I get my wife into music I love -- then she plays the SHIT out of it with her one track mind. She has done this with the Stone's Let it Bleed', RHCP By the Way, numerous Wilco albums, etc. Right now its Mermaid II. 'Secrets of the Sea' USED to be my favorite 'inconsequential Wilco track'. Does it really have to go on repeat?

if anyone knows and loves Mountain Creek, i would probably enjoy hanging out with you. $2.17/6 pack.

Hate to be the pragmatist, but this is what happens when everyone else in the country realizes the really good band you love is..........really good. We can always hope the next album sucks and Wilco alienates its new fan base....................call me a dreamer.

so I guess that means no Summerfest again

 

should we Milwaukee folks be targeting Indy? Is is possible that Lola is the only IL/WI date

Certainly possible after the Residency and Lolla -- but I wouldn't be at all surprised to see some Thanksgiving Chicago shows.

paid $3.99 this morning. chicago, old town.

then my head exploded.

stop voting for Bush and they will be there in a jiffy!

OH SNAP. A burn that used the word 'jiffy' -- that may require a double-snap.

You get excited when you discover Philip Seymour Hoffman would be great to play Jay Bennett in a Wilco movie and then become giddy as you realize Dana Carvey could totally become Pat Sansone.

 

Now, who to get to play Jeff................?

PSH to play Bennett -- that's brilliant. Unfortunately for Wilco to get a movie made about them it would probably require some tragic drama to occur in the future. But for fun, I'm thinking Sean Penn for Jeff -- he can play anybody and he's short and slightly stocky.

They play Tanglewood, but no Ravinia in the CHI?? And I thought Wilco was a "Chicago band." The only way they could make up for this is if they play like, I dunno, 5 shows in a row here AND do Lollapalooza this year.

"I hate that fucking Wilco."

I love Wilco and I now love your Mom.

.....thought the tongue sticking out guy paired with the inherent ridiculousness of the comment would be ample indication of the fact that I was kidding. i'll try to be funnier next time....

Much thanks for that -- I really enjoyed it. I remember that show from the 90's, back when VH1 played some credible music. What an exciting time to see Wilco live, and what a rockin' set. 'So You Wanna Be a Rock n' Roll Star' is one of my favorite songs (though I prefer Petty's cover). To see that live with Roger McGuinn and the boys was a real treat.

And what a cool version of 'Misunderstood'. Also funny seeing Nels Cline with long hair and a beard on lap steel................

Hopefully plenty of new tunes are floating around in Jeff Tweedy's head.

Yeah, I've learned not to doubt JT. His mind is filled with radio cures.

I thought you were a chick.

sorry to disappoint.

marriage and devotion to family can be over rated at times

well played.

why do you have to go to the wedding?

Can't you suddenly get the flu?

I appreciate the ideas -- keep em coming, cause I get more and more depressed with every great band that joins the lineup.......I honestly have tried everything, including trying to break this otherwise great couple up.....ala some horribly campy summer movie scenario. I email all my friends at every opportunity about how their dreams are my nightmare with this lineup, and how they can still have a barrel on my rooftop deck as they see all those amazing bands all of you will see and I won't. Admittedly, I'm being a huge asshole about this to anyone close to me who isn't obsessed with music. Sorry, but I am depressed....seriously.

i can't fucking believe i have to be at my wife's best friend's wedding -- with that lineup two miles from my apt. divorce isn't that bad is it?

at least i'll have sunday.

How does one gracefully react when they've been burned (well)?

I'd go with Kelso's, "BURN!"

or

the consiliatory "well played, sir"

And yet your wrong.

 

That's the definition of irony.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I kid

since you were joking, that was really funny. i think i literally laughed out loud.

i've thought that "i'm an american aquarium drinker" meant more like "i drink like a fish"...as in, he drinks lots of alcohol.

Jeff stopped drinking when he was 23 (save for perhaps a few times falling off the wagon). But I agree -- I always related that line to excess, that's why he "assasins down the avenue". Maybe not alcohol, but America's excessive consumption of........everything. The irony is even when he's "dixie-cup drinkin," he still "assasins" down the avenue. So maybe the excess isn't the main problem. At least that would be consistent with Jeff's later treatment for mental illness in rehab. Of course, I have no idea what Jeff meant, but that's what it means to me, and thats why its a great lyric for me, cause it means something.

Who knows, maybe he takes the Dylan stand on the aquarium line - "why does everyone try to figure out what my lyrics mean, I don't know what the fuck they mean" (paraphrased from the Scorcese doc)

he talks about standing in pouring rain, and then, in the next sentence -- the wet socks. seems unlikely they are unrelated. but i also have been wrong before, probably more than you.......

if i remember correctly, he was standing in the rain before the show.....